The Washington Post was acquired in 2013 by Amazon's Founder and Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos, at a time when the news industry had been seeing considerable decline in their revenues from print subscription. This trend is largely due to an increasing number of people getting their news from the internet. The key challenge for WaPo in the Jeff Bezos era ahead is to execute a content strategy that maximizes their digital presence. Part of their strategy is using video in content marketing efforts. The Washington Post since 2013 has started to aims towards expanding readership and subscription to their digital content. This is expected…
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WP eMember as WordPress Membership Plugin: User Management Tutorial
In this post we will describe in detail one of the most popular Wordpress membership plugins – WP eMember. Membership plugins are necessary to manage users. Each membership corresponds to a user role, which determines access to content and other features on your website. Using this Wordpress membership plugin would help you in deciding what content to provide to which category of learner. Control of access to content eventually determines that you are able to monetize your content. We discuss how to implement Per user restriction on login time and preventing unauthorized access so that one paid member has maximum restrictions from sharing…
WordPress course plugin to make course website – Sensei tutorial
Building a course website in WordPress is a great way to monetize your education content. It is being done quite effectively by individuals and companies across the globe. In this blog post we shall walk you through the steps necessary to install the very useful Sensei WordPress course plugin. Using Sensei, you can set up WordPress to sell online courses. By using the plugins features and integrating them with secure VdoCipher's online video player, you can sell online courses to your target audience more effectively. The quality and security of videos is the USP for most companies that wish to sell…
Faster video upload to VdoCipher: AWS acceleration + Aspera
Now you can enjoy speedy video upload even of large size from your dashboard & APIs to VdoCipher dashboard. The speedy functionality works with all kinds of video upload- from desktop, ftp, url, server, dropbox. The speeds of video upload to VdoCipher servers now show improvements typically in the range of 50% to 500% for cross-country transfer of larger objects, but can go ever higher under certain conditions. Technology behind faster uploads: AWS S3 accelerations - Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration enables fast, easy, and secure transfers of files over long distances between your client and an S3 bucket. Transfer Acceleration takes advantage of…
How GOT video leak could have been prevented with VdoCipher
Prevent pre-release leaks using dynamic watermarking feature from VdoCipher ? Game of Throne is one of the most popular TV series currently. The first four episodes of the series started making their way around the Internet Saturday night after being uploaded to several Torrent sites, a day before the official Sunday première. The four leaks seem to originate from a screener sent to reviewers and translators ahead of the show's launch. Below link give a detailed news. https://mashable.com/2015/04/12/game-of-thrones-leak/ The main thing to notice here is that video seems to be downloaded using an external camera which explains poor quality of leakage. There is a watermark…
Looking to sell videos online: Protection from piracy
"Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive. That tension will not go away " -Stewart Brand. This is the nature of information and content being posted on internet these days. Media publishers trying to sell videos online have often heard “ Once you have put your videos online, it is free . There can be no DRM on the internet”. How practical is this argument and are there ways to prevent video download on web? I would like to have a take on the notion considering current legislation and technologies. It is true that a content…